Memorials and blue plaques in Manchester
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Manchester. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this England city, and to visit them in person.
240 locations, organised A to Z. Includes 8 war memorials.
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A.V. Hill
Coupland Street

Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Square

Alan Turing
Coupland Street

Alan Turing
Coupland Building 1, Coupland Street, M13 9PL

Alfred Waterhouse
Albert Square

Alison Uttley
Ashburne Hall

Alison Uttley
Manchester University Museum

Alliott Verdon Roe
Brownsfield Mill, Binns Place, Ancoats

Aneurin Bevan
Trafford Hospital

Animal war memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Anne, Princess Royal
London Road

Annie Horniman CH
Peter Street

Anthony Burgess BA
Manchester University

Ardwick Battallion
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Arrivals Station
Water Street

Audrey Smith
Staffordshire Arm, Castlefield
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Barton Aerodrome
Liverpool Road, Barton, Salford, Manchester

Belle Vue, Manchester
Hyde Road

Blue plaque № 67557
Manchester

Blue plaque № 795
Heaton Hall, Heaton Park

Boardwalk, Manchester
Little Peter Street

Bramhall War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Brass plaque № 39926
Manchester

Brass plaque № 58665
Hyde Road Bus Depot, Hyde Road

Brian Cosgrove
Cosgrove Hall Court, Albany Road, Chorlton

Britain's first Nuclear Free Zone
Town Hall Interior

Bronze plaque № 10205
Redhill Street, Ancoats

Bronze plaque № 30302
Roman Fort (remains), Castlefield

Bronze plaque № 57062
Sir Howard Bernstein Way

Bryan Mosley
Granada Studios
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Capt Robert Bradshaw
Victoria Bridge Street

Caribbean Focus
West Indian Centre, Carmoor Road

Castlefield Urban Heritage Park
Grocer's Warehouse, Castle Street, Castlefield

Castlefield Viaduct
Water Street

Catenian Association
Barton Square

Cathedral Church of St. Mary, St. Denys and St. George, Manchester
Fennel Street

Catholic Social Guild
Chorlton Street

Cattle Ramp
Water Street

Chaim Weizmann
Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road

Charles Beyer
Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Castlefield

Charles Edward Stuart
Byrom Street

Charles Robert Cockerell RA
King Street

Charles White FRS MRCS
corner of King Street and Cheapside

Charles Worsley
Charles Worsley, Platt Hall, Rusholme

Charlotte Brontë
The Salutation, Boundary Street West

Co-operative Insurance Company
103 Princess Street

Coal Wharf, Manchester
Coal Wharf, Castle Street, Castlefield

Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster
The Crown Court, Crown Square

Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford in the County of Lancaster
Crown Square

Crompton War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap
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Daniel Adamson
'The Towers', (Shirley Institute)

Daniel Adamson
Shirley Institute Wilmslow Road, Didsbury

David Williamson
St Mary's Gate

Dodie Smith
609 Stretford Road, Old Trafford

Doris Speed MBE
Granada Studios

Dr Edward Schunck PhD DSc FRS
11 Princess Street

Dr Frederick Crace Calvert PhD FRS
Princess Street

Dr Peter Mark Roget
University of Manchester, Oxford Road

Dr The Rt Rev. James Prince Lee MA DD
Cathedral Street

Dr William Henry FRS
Mansfield Chambers

Duncan Edwards
19 Gorse Avenue, Gorse Hill, Stretford
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Edgar Wood
Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park

Edward Salomons
Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road

Elizabeth Gaskell
Chapel Walks, Cross Street

Elizabeth Gaskell
84 Plymouth Grove

Elizabeth Raffald
Selfridges, 7 Market Street

Ellen Wilkinson
Balsam Close, Brunswick

Ellen Wilkinson
Quadrangle, Manchester University

Eric Mayer
Platt Hall, Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield

Ernest Jones
Bow Chambers, Bow Lane

Ernest Tyldesley
71 Lumber Lane, Roe Green
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Fenian Ambush, Manchester
Hyde Road, Railway Bridge

Field-Marshal Duke Arthur Wellesley
Liverpool Road

first aerodrome in Manchester
Sports Pavilion, Hough End Playing Fields

first automatic traffic signals in the North West of England
Market Street, Cross Street

first Manchester Gas Works
St. Mary's Parsonage

Ford Madox Brown
Addison Terrace, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park

Frank Kingdon-Ward
Former 14 Heaton Road, Withington

Frédéric Chopin
Manchester

Friedrich Engels
Aberdeen House University

Frog and Bucket Comedy Club
The Frog and Bucket Comedy Club, Northern Quarter
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James
The Haçienda Apartments, 11-13 Whitworth Street West

James Herriot
Elizabeth House, St. Peters Square

James Sadler
Corporation Street and Balloon Street

John Barker
St. Ann Street

John Benjamin Dancer
45 Cross Street

John Bennet
Blackfriars Street and Deansgate

John Bradford
Cathedral Street

John Byrom
Shambles Square

John Byrom
St. Ann's Square

John Dalton
Peace Garden, Mosley St

John Dalton
Chester Street

John Dalton
36 George Street

John Dalton
Ape and Apple Public House, John Dalton Street

John Hay Beith
Wilmslow Road, Rusholme

John Rylands
Edge Lane, Longford Park, Stretford

John Wesley MA
Central Hall, Oldham Street

Joseph Jordan
70 Bridge Street
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Lancashire Aero Club
Liverpool Road, Barton, Salford, Manchester

Les Dawson
The Palace Theatre, Oxford Road

Levenshulme South Station
975 Stockport Road, Levenshulme

LGBT
Church House, 90 Deansgate

Little Ireland
Great Marlborough St

Liverpool Road railway station
Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road

Long Lane War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Longridge House
Marks and Spencer's / Selfridges building, Exchange Square

Longridge House
Marks and Spencer's / Selfridges building, Shambles Square

Lord Earl James Stanley
Deansgate and St.John Street

Lord Ernest Simon
Wythenshawe Hall, Wythenshawe Park, Wythenshawe Rd

Louis Paulhan
25 - 27 Paulhan Road, Didsbury
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Manchester
Town Hall, Albert Square

Manchester Borough Council
National Westminster Bank, King Street

Manchester Corinthians
Fog Lane Park, Didsbury

Manchester Foot Hospital
Upper Brook Street

Manchester Grammar School
Long Millgate

Manchester Poor House
Spinningfield, Deansgate

Manchester Ship Canal Railway swing bridge
The Quays

Manchester Town Hall
Lloyds Bank, Cheapside

Manchester United Football Club
Northampton Road, Newton Heath

Manchester United Football Club
Bank Street

Mancunian Films
nr Welcome Inn, 30 Rusholme Grove, Rusholme

Margaret Ashton
12 Kingston Road, Didsbury

Marguerite (Madge) Nuttall Addy OBE
34 Manchester Road, Chorlton

Marie Ashworth
Deansgate

Marie Stopes
The University of Manchester

Mark Addy
Mark Addy, just south of the Albert Bridge along the River Irwell

Mary Whittaker
Trafford Centre

Merchants' Warehouse, Castlefield
Merchant's Warehouse, Castle Street, Castlefield

Middleton Hall
Middleton Arena, Corporation Street, Middleton

Midland Hotel, Manchester
Midland Hotel, Peter Street

Morley Green War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap
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Pat Phoenix
Granada Studios

Paul Henry Abell
Ashburys Railway Station

Peak District and Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society
St. George's House, Peter Street

Pedro
55 Bridge Street

Pendleburys
The Ancoats Lad, 107 Oldham Street

Peter Green
Cathedral Street

Peterloo Massacre
Free Trade Hall, Peter Street

Piccadilly railway station
London Road

Pierre Adolphe Valette
Polytechnic, Grosvenor Street, All Saints

pissotière, Manchester
Charles Street

plaque № 30299
The Station Building, Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road

plaque № 723
Cannon Street, Corporation Street

plaque № 754
Peace Garden, Princess Street, Mosley St

plaque № 770
The Magistrates' Court, Crown Square

plaque № 802
Seabrook Road/Orford Road, Newton Heath

Platt Chapel
Platt Chapel, Rusholme

postbox
Corporation Street

Prince Rupert
Didsbury Library, 692 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury
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Red plaque № 30711
Queen's Road

Red plaque № 807
Main entrance, Heaton Park, Bury Old Road

Richard Cobden
County Court, Quay Street

Richard Lane
Grosvenor Street, All Saints

River Irwell
Albert Bridge, New Bailey Street / Bridge Street

Robert Angus Smith FRS
Oxford Rd

Robert Donat
42 Everett Road, Withington

Robert Howard Spring
26 Hesketh Avenue, Didsbury

Robert Owen
Royal Exchange, St. Ann's Square

Roy Castle OBE
Opera House, Manchester

Royal Hotel, Manchester
124 - 130 Market Street

Rt Hon. Sir Lord William Thomson OM PC GCVO PRS FRS FRSE PRSE
Acton Square
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Salford's Children
Sainsbury's, Regent Road, Salford

Sam Wild
57 Birch Hall Lane, Rusholme

Shudehill Fight
Arndale Centre, Shudehill

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown KBE
6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Sir Captain John Alcock KBE DSC RN
6 Kingswood Road, Fallowfield

Sir Charles Hallé
Duxbury Square, Moss Side

Sir Dr Edward Frankland KCB PhD FRS
Manchester

Sir Edwin Chadwick KCB
5 Kingfisher Close, Stockport Road, Longsight

Sir Frank Worrell
Dover Street

Sir Harry Secombe CBE
Opera House, Manchester

Sir Henry Royce OBE 1st Baronet
Midland Hotel, Peter Street

Sir Henry Royce OBE 1st Baronet
Royce Road

Sir Henry Royce OBE 1st Baronet
Midland Hotel, Peter Street

Sir Henry Royce OBE 1st Baronet
Royce Road, Hulme

Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS
Manchester University

Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS
Museum Building, Oxford Road

Sir Lt Gen Harry Smith GCB 1st Baronet
65 Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park

Sir William Brereton 1st Baronet
Didsbury Library, 692 Wilmslow Road

Sir William Fairbairn FRS 1st Baronet
Arndale Centre, High Street

Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS
Coupland Street

Somme Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

St Augustine's
Sackville Street Building, Granby Row Entrance

Staffordshire Warehouse
Staffordshire Arm, Castlefield

Stephen Hunt
Pauls Hair and Beauty World

Superintendent James Bent
530 Stretford Road, Old Trafford

Sylvia Pankhurst
The Pankhurst Centre, 60-62 Nelson Street
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Team GB
Piccadilly

The Circus
86 Portland Street

The Football League
Royal Buildings, 124-130 Market Street

The Guardian
Cross Street

The Hanging Bridge
Hanging Ditch

The Most Rev. William Temple
Cathedral Street

Thomas de la Warre
Long Millgate

Thomas de la Warre
Cathedral Street

Thomas De Quincey
Charlotte Street

Thomas Henry
40 King Street

Thomas Wright
Sidney Street, All Saints

Together Trust
16 Quay Street

Tom Curry
1 Bedford Street, opposite St Teresa’s School in Firswood

Tom Kilburn CBE FRS
Rutherford Building, Bridgeford Street

Tom Kilburn CBE FRS
Rutherford Building, Bridgeford Street

Tommy Taylor
22 Great Stone Road, Stretford

Trades Union Congress
Major Street
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Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.